I think the OP meant going back to the 80s

OK but that still doesnt answer the OP of why wireless controllers can never be faster than wired controllers. You said it is clear why but you just explained the difference between bandwidth and latency which wasn't the question

Wireless AC was a confusing example on my part because speed is not the same as latency, and AC achieves high speed by sending a lot of data at once, not necessarily increasing the time it takes for data to reach the destination (as in ping speed, or more accurately, hop time). The controller equivalent of ping is…

Yeah it is a different protocol and frequency but still the underlying concept is the same: take a controller input, convert to a RF wave, then decode it at the console. From reading some comments and my own experience I would propose it is a combination of 1: older technology like bluetooth in controllers, 2: the…

Thanks for the trying but radio waves do in fact travel at the speed of light

Yes it is slightly less than c in other media but the difference is negligible. c is 300,000,000 m/s and you sit at most 5 m from your tv.

lol what speed do you think it travels at?

Wireless is not sound, that's not true. It is em radiation, such as radio frequency, which moves at the speed of light

all EM radiation travels at the speed of light.

It's just surprising to me because wireless ac is faster than gigabit ethernet, for example, but controllers are slower

Citation needed. Why can't wireless, which travels at the speed of light, ever be less laggy than a cable? I think it would come down to the additional circuitry needed to process the signals, but i'm not sure

It's 2015 stop feeding the battery overlords and invest in a decent charger/battery set

wow. you are a sicko

Those look good. Are they just mockups?

I can totally hear Bowser with a Mexican accent

No surprise these are gorgeous. I've got a luigi wiimote and my son got a princess peach, and they both look fantastic. The brown accents on the luigi are perfect (they don't quite work with the Mario though)

It's the best approximation of an NES controller I've used in a long time, so I (and my Mario skillz) will have to disagree

Yeah I'm going to trust a site named after a condiment

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Did you just scare quote your own quote ?